Killer wanting porn in prison complains Truth newspaper is banned.

The Dominion Post (8 July) reports that a convicted killer is complaining that porn magazines and other “literary material”, including the taloid newspaper Truth Weekender are banned in jail. Details emerged earlier in the week about Stephen Thomas Hudson’s High Court civil action claiming a list of banned reading material given to him breached his right to freedom of expression. Hudson, 39, who is serving a life jail term for the murder of Nicholas Pike, was complaining that pictures had been confiscated from him. The Society points out that the NZ Truth (now replaced by the Truth Weekender containing very similar content) is viewed by many as promoting moral decay and degeneracy.

Take a look some day at the colour feature section of each 52 page Truth weekly (FH2 pages 19-34), that regularly constituted 31% of the contents of each paper. It was regularly devoted to promoting hard core porn DVDs, brothels, strippers, promiscuity and all manner of sexual perversions. A typical example of this moral degeneracy is the advertised hardcore porn DVD featuring teenage girls: “Teenage Jizz Junkie 4? in the May 14, 2009 issue. The promotional states: “The gateway drug. One out of every teen becomes a jizz junky, and we couldn’t be happier. According to recent statistics, teenage sperm addiction tops the list of todays most sticky social issues. In fact, some teen sperm consumption as a whole is up nearly 80% from last year. Providing for today’s young women should take top priority. Everybody’s doing it.”

In the NZ Truth entire pages of gratuitous and explicit porn promos and sex services were sponsored by porn distributors such as Erox Adult Stores and the adult sex service industry (prostitution services). Steve Crow promoted his wares through sponsored pages such as the Jesse Jane feature “Courtesy of vixen.co.nz” – (NZ Truth May 28, 2009) and page 21 “Courtesy of Eden Digital” (June 18, 2009).

NZ Truth, which was owned by Fairfax, made much of its moneyby advertising hard core porn, and services relating to the sex industry. The Listener (Feb 10-16, 2007 Vol. 207 No. 3483) states: “Fairfax’s predecessor, INL, put up with Truth’s seedy reputation and grubby content because the paper contributed about $300,000 in profits, mostly from sex-trade advertising.”